[media-credit name=”Flickr / Chris Erwin” align=”aligncenter” width=”495″][/media-credit] If only we could hook the price alerts up to airhorns…

Today in $mart, I wrote up a few tools and methods to make your online shopping cheaper.

Some of it involved letting the web work for you, via price alerts. The idea is that you can tell a plugin or a website what you’d pay for an item, then that site or plugin will tell you if and when that thing costs that much — hence letting the web work for you.

But here on the blog, I’d like to talk about making the web work for you.

Business is personal. And it impacts nearly every aspect of our daily lives. From keeping a household budget to planning for retirement, to getting (and keeping) a job or just putting up with annoying guy in the next cubicle — we've got a lot on our minds, and Personal Interest wants to help you sort it all out. We're bringing together the Denver Post $mart Editor with variety of experts from the local business community. We've asked them to offer tips, advice and general observations aimed at making the business of everyday life a bit easier to manager. Note: The bloggers were selected for their expertise, but their opinions are solely their own. While many operate their own businesses or consulting firms, we are not endorsing or advocating their businesses.